By Ryan Kennedy, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Candidate Outreach Intern The Nonpartisan Candidate Outreach program currently underway here at the Minnesota Environmental Partnership is working to put energy issues at the… Read more »
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Landmark Great Lakes Restoration Bill Advances in U.S. Senate
Bill includes more than $650 million in restoration funds ANN ARBOR, MICH. (June 30) – A landmark Great Lakes restoration bill advanced in the U.S. Senate today. The Great Lakes… Read more »
Going Car Free in Minnesota
From Amber Collett, Communications Associate, Transit for Livable Communities I recently sat down with Rachel Bents, a St. Paul resident who has decided to try to live car-free (without her… Read more »
Twin Cities Regional Highway System and Transit Investment
The Twin Cities regional highway system continues to expand – it grew another 1 percent between 2000 and 2008 and is the 8th largest of the 25 most populous regions.
Quirky Twists of Fate
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – March 26, 2010 “Peculiar haze, or smokey fog … unlike anything known within the memory of man.” – English naturalist Gilbert White, Summer 1783 Natural… Read more »
A Flood of Activities at the Legislature This Week
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – March 19, 2010 “High water risin’ – risin’ night and day All the gold and silver being stolen away” -Robert Allen Zimmerman, September 2001* It… Read more »
Some Good Agitation for Our State’s Nuclear Energy Policy
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – March 5, 2010 “I think the agitation that I made on the matter contributed much to the discontinuance by the government of the pernicious practice”… Read more »
February Daydreams of Summer Canoe Trips
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – February 26, 2010 “There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude,… Read more »
Has the Governor’s State of the State speech set the tone for a rancorous political session?
John Tuma’s Capitol Update “We, the people of the state of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty and desiring to perpetuate its blessings and secure the… Read more »
Off to a Good Start
John Tuma’s Capitol Update As the legislative session opens this week, legislators and Gov. Pawlenty have taken some positive early steps for the environment with the capital investments bill. Hopefully they… Read more »